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Ewing, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Huntington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75949. It lies near Big Island. The Survey maps it on the Etoile South quadrangle.

Ewing within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

146 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Ewing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,005 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 16 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 459
28 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 583
25 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service90-2011
23 September 1999Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 244
20 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Natural35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 455

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ewing in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2014HailEwing-Nickel size hail was reported in Kingtown Landing Store.

Every storm recorded in Angelina County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Thomas Crossing2.0 miles14
Alco4.5 miles14
Rocky Springs6.5 miles14
Dunagan6.9 miles14
Platt6.9 miles15
Oak Flat6.9 miles14
Ora7.4 miles13
Huntington8.0 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on EwingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110530728The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381855. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.